linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/9] memcg: add dirty page accounting infrastructure

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Date:	Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:27:43 +0800
From:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>,
	"hannes@...xchg.org" <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Andrea Righi <andrea@...terlinux.com>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] memcg: add dirty page accounting infrastructure

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 02:37:38PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:00:24 +0800
> Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>
> > 
> > Add memcg routines to count dirty, writeback, and unstable_NFS pages.
> > These routines are not yet used by the kernel to count such pages.  A
> > later change adds kernel calls to these new routines.
> > 
> > As inode pages are marked dirty, if the dirtied page's cgroup differs
> > from the inode's cgroup, then mark the inode shared across several
> > cgroup.
> > 
> > ...
> >
> > @@ -1885,6 +1888,44 @@ void mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(struct 
> >  			ClearPageCgroupFileMapped(pc);
> >  		idx = MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_MAPPED;
> >  		break;
> > +
> > +	case MEMCG_NR_FILE_DIRTY:
> > +		/* Use Test{Set,Clear} to only un/charge the memcg once. */
> > +		if (val > 0) {
> > +			if (TestSetPageCgroupFileDirty(pc))
> > +				val = 0;
> > +		} else {
> > +			if (!TestClearPageCgroupFileDirty(pc))
> > +				val = 0;
> > +		}
> 
> Made me scratch my head for a while, but I see now that the `val' arg
> to (the undocumented) mem_cgroup_update_page_stat() can only ever have
> the values 1 or -1.  I hope.

Yeah, I see it's called this way:

   3    151  /c/linux/include/linux/memcontrol.h <<mem_cgroup_inc_page_stat>>
             mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(page, idx, 1);

   4    157  /c/linux/include/linux/memcontrol.h <<mem_cgroup_dec_page_stat>>
             mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(page, idx, -1);

Thanks,
Fengguang
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